Opinion

Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk had a chance to move past the embarrassing revelations this week about how he bypassed the disclosure and compensation rules as a university board member a few years ago. He didn’t quite make it.

Festival season has begun. We’ve seen spot prawns served multiple ways, we drank tea in Oak Bay, we entertained our guests at the Sooke River Bluegrass and Vancouver Island Cultural festivals.

Retired educator Terry Dance-Bennink took a huge step of courage that changed her life.

How should we respond to hate-mongers? Especially in this day of the Internet, when vile trolls spewing crackpot conspiracy theories of every toxic variety can easily reach hundreds of thousands of people, how, if at all, should we regulate hate spee

My barista spelled my name with an exclamation point the other day, and it turned my entire afternoon around. I was no longer simply Shannon — I was Shannon! And I was caffeinated! It was awesome.

In response to Gwen Barlee’s commentary “B.C. needs to move ahead on Lyme disease,” (June 17), I would like to state that the B.C. health-care system is very aware of Lyme disease and that agencies such as the B.C.

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What causes terrorism? Failure to understand the causes dooms us to inadequate or even ruinous responses. Is it really as simple as many, such as former president G. W.

The Harper government’s approval of the Enbridge pipeline is certainly not surprising. The prime minister announced his support for the controversial project before the hearings even began.

A relative is back in Victoria after living elsewhere in Canada. She spent a few days re-absorbing the character of the town and then offered some observations. Victoria is not typical, she said. All sorts of things are done differently here.